Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

22 — SECOND VOLUME, 23rd LETTER
This letter, written to Khwâja Muhammad ’Abdullah
‘sallamahullâhu wa abkâhu wa awsalahu ilâ ghâyati mâ yatamannâhu’,
his master Muhammad Bâqî Billâh’s ‘quddisa sirruh’
son, says that the first thing to do is to hold fast to the Sunnat-i
saniyya and to avoid bid’ats, and many other things:
Praise and gratitude be to Allâhu ta’âlâ. I invoke Him to
bestow salvation and goodness upon those people whom He has
chosen. My dear son! The primary advice that I will give you and
to the other beloved friends is to hold fast to the Sunnat-i saniyya
and to avoid bid’ats. The Islamic religion has been becoming
gharîb and weak. Muslims are now forlorn. From now on it will
go on being gharîb, too. This will go so far that there will not be
anybody left on earth to say “Allah.” It has been said that
Doomsday will come when there are no longer any good people
on the earth and evil has spread everywhere.
[Our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ stated: “There will
come such a time when only the name of Islam will remain on my
Ummat. Believers will practise only a few Islamic customs, and
they will not have any îmân left. The Qur’ân al-kerîm will only be
read (or recited). They will not even know of the commandments
and prohibitions. Their only thought will be about eating and
drinking. They will forget about Allâhu ta’âlâ. They will worship
money only. They will become women’s slaves. They will not be
contented with earning a little, nor will they be satisfied with
earning much.”
Hadrat ’Abdulwahhâb-i Sha’rânî ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’ says in
his book entitled Mukhtasar-i Tadhkira-i Qurtubî: [1] “It is stated in
a hadîth quoted by Ibni Mâja: ‘There will come such a time when
Islam, as the colour, the beauty of a dress fades, will fade away
from the earth so much so that namâz, fasting, hajj and alms will
[1] Tadhkira-i-Qurtubî is a book written by Abu ’Abdullah Muhammad
Qurtubî (of Cordova) ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’ (d. 671 [1272 A.D.], an
Andalusian scholar. Mukhtasar-i-Tadhkira-i-Qurtubî, an abridged
version of the book, is available from Hakîkat Kitâbevi of Istanbul,
Turkey.
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